Student Strike News - Part 5

Monday, November 14, 2022

Various rallies by student strikers were held Monday on campus. We have compiled some video from various Twitter accounts at links below.

From the Bruin: UCLA academic workers joined tens of thousands of their peers across the University of California system in striking for more equitable wages and better working conditions.

Rallies erupted at the Broad Art Center, Bunche Hall, the Inverted Fountain, Engineering VI, and the Gonda Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center starting at 8 a.m., with hundreds of workers from a coalition of unions under the United Auto Workers –representing teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, student researchers and more –on the picket line . Some strikers held signs with messages such as “UAW On Strike Unfair Labor Practice,” while chanting “We’ve got the power!” in response to calls from rally organizers.

According to the Washington Post, the strike is the largest labor stoppage in the U.S. since 2019, and the largest academic strike ever held in higher education. Two branches of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union also allowed UPS employees represented by the union to avoid delivering to UC campuses for the duration of the strike.

Nearly 98% of UAW’s members voted to authorize a strike on Nov. 2, alleging that the UC has engaged in several unfair labor practices since they began bargaining with workers in spring 2021.

“We are still far apart on many of the issues that will make UC a more equitable university: dignified compensation that addresses the crisis of affordable housing, access to transportation benefits so those who must commute can do so affordably and with a minimal carbon footprint, Non-Resident Supplemental Tuition Remission, and appointment lengths,” said Rafael Jaime, UAW 2865 president, in a press release Monday. “We are hopeful that UC will cease its Unfair Labor Practices and bargain with us in good faith.” ...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2022/11/14/uc-academic-workers-walk-out-in-largest-

us-strike-since-2019.

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